NRNA to attract 1.6 million tourists to Nepal

Kathmandu, Oct. 6: The Non-Resident Nepalese Association (NRNA) has launched a campaign to attract 1.6 million tourists to Nepal by the end of 2017.

It announced the campaign amidst a programme organized in Kathmandu.

As per the agreement with the government last year on tourism promotion programme, ‘Atithi Devo Bhava’, the NRNA has prepared an action plan to attract more tourists to Nepal.

“As per the programme we are initiating a campaign of sending three foreign friends by one non-resident Nepalese,” said vice president of the NRNA and committee on the Promotion of Tourism in Nepal Bhavan Bhatta.

He informed that there were more than 5 million Nepalese in 75 countries across the globe and they would play a crucial role to promote Nepal in the international market.

Secretary of the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Shankar Prasad Adhikari appreciated the NRNA’s efforts in tourism promotion and said that the government was ready to cooperate and coordinate with the Association.

Chief executive officer of Nepal Tourism Board Dipak Raj Joshi and NRNA president Shesh Ghale expressed their commitment to work together in the future.

Joshi said that Nepal had the potentials in medical, entertainment, religious and other tourism.

Tourism Promotion ambassadors for Denmark and Russia Som Nath Sapkota and Sapila Rajbhandari respectively presented paper on the campaign.